Progress on 'pico' air vehicles
Progress on 'pico' air vehicles
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DOI：
10.1177/0278364912455073
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发表时间：
2012-09-01
影响因子：
9.2
通讯作者：
Whitney, J. P.
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作者：
Wood, R. J.;Finio, B.;Whitney, J. P.
随着飞行机器人特征尺寸的减小，成功飞行的挑战又回到了制造、致动、流体力学、稳定性和动力等基本问题上，而这些问题通常在较大的飞机上得到了回答。当开发一个普通家蝇规模的飞行机器人时，所有的硬件都必须从头开始开发，因为没有任何“现成的”可以用于满足极端质量和功率限制的机制，传感器或计算。这种技术空白也适用于制造和组装航空机械部件的技术：机械特征的规模和复杂性需要新的方法来设计和原型在宏观和微观机电系统之间的规模，但在设计人类规模的车辆时，人们会期望有丰富的拓扑结构和材料选择。考虑到这些挑战，我们提出了昆虫规模机器人或“皮科”飞行器的基本技术进展。
As the characteristic size of a flying robot decreases, the challenges for successful flight revert to basic questions of fabrication, actuation, fluid mechanics, stabilization, and power, whereas such questions have in general been answered for larger aircraft. When developing a flying robot on the scale of a common housefly, all hardware must be developed from scratch as there is nothing 'off-the-shelf' which can be used for mechanisms, sensors, or computation that would satisfy the extreme mass and power limitations. This technology void also applies to techniques available for fabrication and assembly of the aeromechanical components: the scale and complexity of the mechanical features requires new ways to design and prototype at scales between macro and microeletromechanical systems, but with rich topologies and material choices one would expect when designing human-scale vehicles. With these challenges in mind, we present progress in the essential technologies for insect-scale robots, or 'pico' air vehicles.